In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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