We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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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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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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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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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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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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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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