Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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 are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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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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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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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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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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