Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDA man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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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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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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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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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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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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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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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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