Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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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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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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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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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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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 are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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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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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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