We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPerfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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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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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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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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