We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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We 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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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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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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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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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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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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