We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDJealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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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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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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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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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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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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