Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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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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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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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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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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