Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTo achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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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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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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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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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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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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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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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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