Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDA man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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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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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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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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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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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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