Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOne forgives to the degree that one loves.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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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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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Never 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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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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