Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDQuarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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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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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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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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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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