Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNo man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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