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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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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 passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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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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