The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNothing 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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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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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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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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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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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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