If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDAs great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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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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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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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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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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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 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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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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