Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPerhaps 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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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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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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