Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIf we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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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 great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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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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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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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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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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