Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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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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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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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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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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