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" There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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" We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others. "
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" It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self. "
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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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" Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing. "
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" Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so. "
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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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" When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe. "
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" Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it. "
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Us
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" Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love. "
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" Only the contemptible fear contempt. "
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Affection
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" Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side. "
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" We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves. "
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Before
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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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