What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTrue love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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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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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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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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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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