Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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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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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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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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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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