Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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