It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhat seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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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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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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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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