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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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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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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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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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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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