Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTimidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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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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