A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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