To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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