"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."
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"Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful-and perfect, unless it be truly what it should be, and possess truly all that it should have."
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"It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do."
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"Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter."
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"The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy."
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"It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one."
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"There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones."
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"There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other."
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"As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time."
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"When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity."
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"The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so."
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"There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of."
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"He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. [Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.]"
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"Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable."
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"Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love."
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"Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble."
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"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."
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"It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others."
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"A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate."
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"It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones."
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