How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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