Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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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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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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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 seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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