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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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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 passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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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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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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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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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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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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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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