We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDVirtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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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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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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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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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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