There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDConfidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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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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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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