It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
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Perseverance merits neither blame nor praise it is only the duration of our inclinations and sentiments, which we can neither create nor extinguish.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.
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Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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As we grow old we become both more foolish and more wise.
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