We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTo achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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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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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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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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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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