We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTrue love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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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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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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