Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDMediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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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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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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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.
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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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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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