"It is far better to be deceived..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.
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“They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.”
“We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.”
“The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.”
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“Michelle, I love you. The other night, I think the entire country saw just how lucky I am. Malia and Sasha, you make me so proud…but don't get any ideas, you're still going to class tomorrow. And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for.”
“Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.”
“Love would never leave us alone”
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“I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.”
“An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.”
“Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest that wear most of it: so are those crisped snaky golden locks which make such wanton gambols with the wind upon supposed fairness, often known to be the dowry of a second head, the skull that bred them in the sepulchre.”