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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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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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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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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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