What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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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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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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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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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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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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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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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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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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