The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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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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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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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 are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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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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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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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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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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