One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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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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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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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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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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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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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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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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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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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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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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