Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDHe who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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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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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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