Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDA true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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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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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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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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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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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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