"Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty."
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"Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret."
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"What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given."
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"It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last."
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"Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people."
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"Old fools are greater fools than young ones."
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"We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore."
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"Love is the smallest part of gallantry."
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"Hope is the last thing that dies in man."
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"We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves."
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"What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own."
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"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."
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"People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune."
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"To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established."
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"Hope and fear are inseparable."
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"Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind."
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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 only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones."
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"We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue."
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"One may outwit another, but not all the others."
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