On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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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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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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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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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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