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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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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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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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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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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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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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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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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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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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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