We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOne forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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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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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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