We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDA man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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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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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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