Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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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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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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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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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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