Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDHeat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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