Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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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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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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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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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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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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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Nothing 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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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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