What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNever give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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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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