The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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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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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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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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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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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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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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