In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhat makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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