Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOur 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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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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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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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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