We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhy 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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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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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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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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