As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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