Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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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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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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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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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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