Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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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 often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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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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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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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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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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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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