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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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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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