A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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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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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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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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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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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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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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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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