We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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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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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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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 love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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