We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe 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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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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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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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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