We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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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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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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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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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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