Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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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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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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