Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPeople’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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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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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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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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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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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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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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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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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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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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