Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTo achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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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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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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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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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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