Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDMen give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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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.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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