The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIt is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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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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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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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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