To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDLove often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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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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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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