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.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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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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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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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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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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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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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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