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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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
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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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
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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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation

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