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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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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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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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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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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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