Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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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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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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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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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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