Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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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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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big 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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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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