We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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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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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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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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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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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 no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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