There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNot all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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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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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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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 virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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