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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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What 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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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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