The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDAbsence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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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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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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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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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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