We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIf we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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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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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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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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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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