We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
François de La RochefoucauldWhen we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
François de La RochefoucauldLos defectos y faltas de la mente son como las heridas del cuerpo. Luego de que se les ha dado todo el cuidado posible para curarlos, todavía quedará una cicatriz
François de La RochefoucauldThe accent of one's birthplace persists in the mind and heart as much as in speech.
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It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.
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It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.
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Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
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We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.
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87.—Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other.
[A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, "Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral treatise." Yet we have scriptural authority for it: "Deceiving and being deceived."—2 TIM. iii. 13.]
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135. On est quelquefois aussi différent de soi-même que des autres.
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