Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTo know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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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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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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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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