We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe pardon to the extent that we love.
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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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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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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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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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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 pardon to the extent that we love.
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