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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
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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, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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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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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Only the contemptible fear contempt.
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Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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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, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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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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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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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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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
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However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
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They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
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We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
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To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
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