Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhat 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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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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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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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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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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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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