We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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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 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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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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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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