Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
From Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.
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