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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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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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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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