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" The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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" We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others. "
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" Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. "
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" Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of. "
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" Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye. "
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" Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance. "
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" A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win. "
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" All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. "
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" Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being. "
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" Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us. "
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" Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. "
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" We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves. "
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" There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves. "
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