Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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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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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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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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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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