The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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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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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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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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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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