Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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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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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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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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