The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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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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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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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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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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