What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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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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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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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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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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