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Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.
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We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us.
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We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.
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We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us.
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We are never so happy or unhappy as we think.
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We are all strong enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great things.
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There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself cleverer than the others.
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The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.
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The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks.
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The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth.
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Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
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Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.
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People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about.
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Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.
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Our minds are lazier than our bodies.
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One is never as fortunate or as unfortunate as one thinks.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.
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It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
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If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength.
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If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
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How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person
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Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself
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For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.
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Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.
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