What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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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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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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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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What 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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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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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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