The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPeople’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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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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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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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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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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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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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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