Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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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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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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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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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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