It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One gets into situations in life from which it is necessary to be a little mad to extricate oneself successfully.
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When the heart is still agitated by the remains of a passion, we are more ready to receive a new one than when we are entirely cured.
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Were we to take as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to disguise what we are, we might appear like ourselves without being at the trouble of any disguise at all.
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If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
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Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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