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The vivacity which increases with old age is not so far removed from folly. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
In love, the first healed is the best healed. View quote
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Innocence is very far from finding as much protection as crime. View quote
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Those who have had great passions are happy all their lives and would be unhappy to have been cured of them. View quote
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Preserving your health by too strict a diet is a tedious illness. View quote
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Sometimes it is pleasant for a husband to have a jealous wife: he always hears what he loves being talked about. View quote
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Small minds are hurt by the smallest things. View quote
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The reason that there are so few good conversationalists is that most people are thinking about what they are going to say and not about what the others are saying. View quote
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One must listen if one wishes to be listened to. View quote
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In love we often doubt what we most believe. View quote
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A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine. View quote
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The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy. View quote
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection. View quote
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Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them. View quote
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The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old. View quote
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To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. View quote
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We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. View quote
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The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies. View quote
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Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity. View quote
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It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger. View quote
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Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others are often at the root of the valour men hold in such high esteem. View quote
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When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate. View quote
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Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. View quote
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