What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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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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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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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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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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There 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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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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