On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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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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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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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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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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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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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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