Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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 seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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