"It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love."
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"He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken."
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"We like to read others but we do not like to be read."
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"We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion."
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"Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised."
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"However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out."
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"To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities."
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"A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast."
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"The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults."
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"Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner."
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"There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much."
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"Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily."
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"The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking."
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"None but great men are capable of having great flaws."
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"Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it; by this strength heroes maintain a calm aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surprising and terrible accidents."
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"Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak."
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"A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another."
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"Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them."
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"It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action."
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"Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another."
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