Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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