"Jealousy is not love, but self-love."
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"Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions."
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"One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines."
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"The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so."
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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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"Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind."
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"One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one."
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"L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire."
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"They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones."
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"Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed."
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"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks."
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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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"A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived."
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"Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion."
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"There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults."
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"We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us."
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"It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out."
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"Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune."
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"There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so."
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"Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach."
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