"There are few women whose charm survives their beauty."
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"Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself."
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"However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others."
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"Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour."
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"The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy."
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"Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves."
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"Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy."
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"Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route."
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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."
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"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
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"Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences."
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"The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice."
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"Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while."
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"We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes."
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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."
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"Only the contemptible fear contempt."
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"It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not."
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"We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish."
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"We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others."
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