Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDFew people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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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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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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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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