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‘A man of wit could often be embarrassed without the company of fools.’
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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‘To safeguard ones health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.’
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‘A shrewd man has to arrange his interests in order of importance and deal with them one by one; but often our greed upsets this order and makes us run after so many things at once that through over-anxiety to obtain the trivial we miss the most important.’
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‘Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill.’
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‘We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.’
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‘Perfect virtue consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.’
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‘We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.’
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‘Our repentance is not so much regret for the evil we have done as fear of its consequences to us.’
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‘The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.’
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‘We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not speak of ourselves at all.’