Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDI 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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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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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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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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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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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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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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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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