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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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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 often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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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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