The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOur 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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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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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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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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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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