To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe pardon to the extent that we love.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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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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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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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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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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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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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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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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