"The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us."
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"Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is."
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"Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities."
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"We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own."
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"The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire."
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"As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do."
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"Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity."
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"Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health."
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"The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease."
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"He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it."
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"Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others."
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"We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine."
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"Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires."
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"True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie."
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"The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are no less in danger of their infection than we are of falling ill when we appear to be well."
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"Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love."
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"There are more defects in temperament than in the mind."
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"Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions."
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"The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love."
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"Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others."
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