Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDConceit causes more conversation than wit.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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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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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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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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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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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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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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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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