We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIf we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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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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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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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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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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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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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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