The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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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 often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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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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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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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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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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