French author (1613-1680)
A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.
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Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit.
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Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.
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Whatever care we take to conceal our passions under the appearance of piety and honor, they are always to be seen through these veils.
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There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.
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Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people.
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Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.
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'Tis as easy to deceive ourselves without our perceiving it, as 'tis difficult to deceive others without their perceiving it.
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The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.
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The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.
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We easily forgive in our friends those faults we do not perceive.
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The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.
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Men are never so easily deceived as when they are endeavoring to deceive others.
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Envy is destroyed by true friendship, and coquetry by true love.
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Death and the sun can't be looked at steadily.
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We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.
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We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.
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Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.
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