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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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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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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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