We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIt is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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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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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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