We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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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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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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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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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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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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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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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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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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