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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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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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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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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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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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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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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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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