Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhat 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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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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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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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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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 promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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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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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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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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