It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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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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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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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Our 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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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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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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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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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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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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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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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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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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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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