All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDGreat souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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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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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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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.
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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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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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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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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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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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