We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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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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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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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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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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