One forgives to the degree that one loves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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