Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDHeat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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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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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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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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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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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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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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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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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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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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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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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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