We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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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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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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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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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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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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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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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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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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