However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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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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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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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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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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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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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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