Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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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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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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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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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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