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.
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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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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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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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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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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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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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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