Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIt is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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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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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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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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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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