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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

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Clever, Passion, Men

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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Wisdom, Saying Nothing, Few Words

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

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Forgiving, Bores
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 304, 1678.

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.

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Fire, Moments, Impulse

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

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Good Marriage, Matrimony, Delightful

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

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Broken Heart, Emotion, Intellect

The heart is forever making the head its fool.

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Sweet Love, Hate, Heart

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

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No Hope, Inseparable, Without Hope

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

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Clever, Passion, Men
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 6, 1678.

We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not.

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There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

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Clever, Men, Enough

Old fools are greater fools than young ones.

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Fool, Young, Young Ones

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

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Clever, Passion, Men
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 6, 1678.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

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Wise, Wisdom, Height

What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

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Friends, Men, Self

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

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Pride, Ignorant, Curiosity

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

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Desire, Polite, Treated

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

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Believe, Natural, Manners

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

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Beauty, People, Age

Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal.

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Luxury, Lifestyle, Individual

We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.

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Self, Deception, Enemy

The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.

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Passion, Reality, Self

It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.

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Jobs, Exercise, Men

Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

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Health, Sobriety, Capacity

As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.

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Health, Mind, World

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