Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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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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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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