Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTimidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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