The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDA man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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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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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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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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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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