There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhat 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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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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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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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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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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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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