Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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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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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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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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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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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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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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