Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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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 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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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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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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