Quote by Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

““How can you expect another to keep a secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?””

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“433.—The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy. ["Nemo alienae virtuti invidet qui satis confidet suae."…

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“357.—Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds see all and are not even hurt.”

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The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself.

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“248.—Magnanimity despises all, to win all.”

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“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.”

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There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit.

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There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit.

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Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady.

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“Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.”

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