We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men have made a virtue of moderation to limit the ambition of the great, and to console people of mediocrity for their want of fortune and of merit.
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People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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No accident so grave but that the clever man can turn it to some good no luck so great but that the fool can twist it to his hurt.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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