A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOn neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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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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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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