In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDJealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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