Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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