Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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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.
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