However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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