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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men.
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There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.
Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance
It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.
We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.
There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things; it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality which wins us deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.
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There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.
