It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word.
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Criticism should awaken our attention, not inflame our anger. We should listen to, and not flee from, those who contradict us. Truth should be our cause, no matter in what manner it comes to us.Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé
There is no one who cannot derive great help and great benefit from learning but there are also only a few people who do not receive a great harm from the light and knowledge they have received by learning, unless they use their knowledge in a manner both fit and natural for them.
Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé
The loftiness of understanding embraces all. It requires as much spirit to suffer the failings of others as it does to appreciate their good qualities.
Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé
It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.
Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé
It is an admirable skill to able to sweeten a refusal with civil words which atone for the favor which we are not able to grant.
Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé
There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others.
Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé
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