Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIf we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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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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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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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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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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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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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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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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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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