If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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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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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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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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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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