There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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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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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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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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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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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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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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