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A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.

A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.

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Gentleman, May, Beast

Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.

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Views, Mind, Credit

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

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Keeping Secrets, Secret, Has Beens

In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.

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Successful, Order, People

The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.

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Wisdom, Art, Agitation

Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.

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Law, Propriety

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

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Wish, Actors, World

We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.

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Sometimes

What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.

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Witty, Wit

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

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Greatness, Men, Fortune

None but great men are capable of having great flaws.

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Men, Greatness, Flaws

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

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Birthday, Death, Time

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

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Flattery, Harm, Ifs

No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

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Wise, Gratitude, May

The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.

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Fear, Vanity, Talking

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

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Wisdom, Giving, Advice

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.

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Happiness, Inner Peace, Unhappy
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1665.

We always like those who admire us.

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Admiration, Admire
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, 1665 - 1678.

Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment.

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Fool, Talent, Sometimes

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

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Work, Office, Doe
"Maximes", 164, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 919-20, 1922.

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

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Luck, Faults, Chance

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

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Jealousy, Spring, Self

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

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Life, People, Giving

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Looks, Should, Owners

The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. [Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.]

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Character, Quality, Ridiculous

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