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136 quotes (Page 3 of 6 pages)No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
Failure
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
Mind
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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
Style
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Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
Appearance
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Age and Aging
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Only the great can afford to have great defects.
Faults
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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
Action
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Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.
Enemies
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Passion
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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.
Speakers and Speaking
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
Valor
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Pride
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Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.
Argument
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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
Flattery
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
Confidence
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
Taste
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The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
Places
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The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
Women
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The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
self-esteem
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Cleverness
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The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.
Fame
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Temper
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The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
Humor
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The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.
Modesty
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
Psychology
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
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