Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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