Maxims
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“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.”
“Les femmes peuvent moins surmonter leur coquetterie que leur passion.”
“Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad.”
“Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.”
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“Truth does not do so much good in the world, as the appearance of it does evil.”
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“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.”
“A weakling is incapable of sincerity.”
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“Perfect valour is to do without witnesses what one would do before all the world.”
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“True Valour would do all that, when alone, that it could do, if all the World were by.”
“Our enemies are nearer the truth in their opinion of us than we are ourselves.”
“We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done.”
“En amour, celui qui est guéri le premier est toujours le mieux guéri.”
“How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.”