Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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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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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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