If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTrue love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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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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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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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 accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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