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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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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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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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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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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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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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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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