We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNot all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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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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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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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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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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