True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDDecency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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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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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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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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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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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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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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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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