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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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