If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTrue love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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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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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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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 valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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