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Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others.
[ Example ]
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Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.
[ Listening ]
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Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
[ Respectability ]
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When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
[ Contentment ]
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
[ Relationships ]
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
[ Conversation ]
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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 happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
[ Humor ]
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Fortune and humor govern the world.
[ Humor ]
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
[ Confidence ]
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Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
[ Enemies ]
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Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.
[ Enemies ]
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
[ Gratitude ]
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
[ Gratitude ]
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
[ Pride ]
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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.
[ Ability ]
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To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
[ Ability ]
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Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
[ Appearance ]
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To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
[ Appearance ]
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