The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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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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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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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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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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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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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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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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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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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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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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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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