To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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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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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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