Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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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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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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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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