Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNot all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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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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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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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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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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