There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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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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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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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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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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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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