The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDGratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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