Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDQuarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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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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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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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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