We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDI 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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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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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 happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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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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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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