Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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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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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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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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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about 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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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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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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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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