If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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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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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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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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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 the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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