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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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The mind cannot long play the heart's role.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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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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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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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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The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
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No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
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In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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