We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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