There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPeople’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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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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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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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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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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