On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDHe who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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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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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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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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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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