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21 " People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about. "
― François de La Rochefoucauld , Maxims
22 " 357.—Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds see all and are not even hurt. "
23 " 142.—As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing. "
24 " We do not despise all those with vices, but we do despise all those without a single virtue. "
25 " 321.—We are nearer loving those who hate us, than those who love us more than we desire. "
26 " In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next. "
27 " 269.—No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does. "
28 " 78.—The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice. "
29 " 93.—Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples. "
30 " 324.—There is more self-love than love in jealousy. "
31 " 437.—We should not judge of a man's merit by his great abilities, but by the use he makes of them. "
32 " 103.—Those who know their minds do not necessarily know their hearts. "
33 " 267.—A quickness in believing evil without having sufficiently examined it, is the effect of pride and laziness. We wish to find the guilty, and we do not wish to trouble ourselves in examining the crime. "
34 " 386.—No people are more often wrong than those who will not allow themselves to be wrong. "
35 " 70.—There is no disguise which can long hide love where it exists, nor feign it where it does not. "
36 " 158.—Flattery is base coin to which only our vanity gives currency. "
37 " 237.—No one should be praised for his goodness if he has not strength enough to be wicked. All other goodness is but too often an idleness or powerlessness of will. "
38 " 329.—We believe, sometimes, that we hate flattery —we only dislike the method. "
39 " Nous avons plus de paresse dans l'esprit que dans le corps. "
40 " 409.—We should often be ashamed of our very best actions if the world only saw the motives which caused them. "