Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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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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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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