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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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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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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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