If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNo man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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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 surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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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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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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