The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDAbsence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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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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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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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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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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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 promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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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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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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