Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhat seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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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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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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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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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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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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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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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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