Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThose who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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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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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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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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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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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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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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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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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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