| How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? |
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| It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad. |
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- Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| Greater qualities are necessary to bear good fortune than bad. |
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- Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| It takes a better man to survive good luck than bad |
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| If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. |
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| Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment. |
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- Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. |
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- Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| Flattery is counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation. |
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- Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it. |
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- Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. |
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- Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy. |
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- Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. |
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- Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. |
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- Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. |
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- Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples. |
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| Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. |
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- Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. |
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- Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? |
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- Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady. |
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- Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. |
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