Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOne can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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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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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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