The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhat is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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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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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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