In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIn the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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