There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOur 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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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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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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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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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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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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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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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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