We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPerhaps 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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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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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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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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