Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWeakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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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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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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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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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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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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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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