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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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