| |  | | | | | | | | | | | We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. | | Uncategorized | | | | | What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end | | Mystery | | | What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. | | Uncategorized | | | When anyone remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then his modesty is real | | Uncategorized | | | Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall. | | Uncategorized | | | Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger. | | Uncategorized | | | You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth. | | Uncategorized | | | | | | | |
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