"Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart."
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"We forgive just so long as we love."
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"There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing."
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"In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next."
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"There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted."
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"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."
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"If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves."
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"Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being."
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"Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us."
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"When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices."
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"Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future."
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"To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation."
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"The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it."
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"A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value."
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"Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken."
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"No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive."
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"Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives."
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"Some allow themselves to be overcome by panic, and others charge because they dare not remain at their posts. Some may be found whose courage is strengthened by small perils that prepare them to face greater dangers. Some are daring when facing swords but dread facing bullets; others dread bullets little but fear facing swords a lot."
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"Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own."
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"We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us."
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