The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTrue love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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