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If pure love exists, free from the dross of our other passions, it lies hidden in the depths of our hearts and unknown even to ourselves.
Everybody speaks well of his own heart, but nobody dares do so of his mind.
Not everyone who understands his own mind understands his heart.
We are so used to disguising ourselves from others that we end by disguising ourselves from ourselves.
As the stamp of great minds is to suggest much in few words, so, contrariwise, little minds have the gift of talking a great deal and saying nothing.
Constancy in love is of two kinds: one comes from continually finding new things to love in the beloved, and the other from making it a point of honour to remain constant.
Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.
True eloquence consists in saying all that is required and only what is required.
In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought: in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.
Absence lessens moderate passions and intensifies great ones, as the wind blows out a candle but fans up a fire.
Violence done to us often hurts less than that which we do to ourselves.
The power our loved ones have over us is almost always greater than the power we have over ourselves.
We go to far less trouble about making ourselves happy than about appearing to be so.
Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.
When you cannot find your peace in yourself it is useless to look for it elsewhere.
Kings turn men into coins to which they assign what value they like, and which others are obliged to accept at the official rate, and not at their real worth.
21st century version: replacing ‘kings’ with ‘corporations’
Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished.
