The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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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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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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