It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhat 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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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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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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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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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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