The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTrue love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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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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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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