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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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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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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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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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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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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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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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