As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTrue love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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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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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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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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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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