The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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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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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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