A man of wit could often be embarrassed without the company of fools.
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Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Pride more often than ignorance makes us refuse to accept new ideas finding the first places taken in the intellectual parade, we refuse to take the last.
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The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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