"Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude."
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"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess."
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"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily."
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"If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength."
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"Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed."
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"We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us."
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"To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed."
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"The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others."
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"Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation."
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"The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire."
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"Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible."
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"We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others."
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"Women do not know all their powers of flirtation."
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"When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue."
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"The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception."
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"Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted."
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"We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered."
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"The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits."
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"A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived."
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"Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge."
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