We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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