"In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities."
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"There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself."
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"Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved."
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"The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy."
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"Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable."
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"Only strong natures can really be sweet ones; those that seem sweet are in general only weak, and may easily turn sour."
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"To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful."
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"The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires."
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"The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners."
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"We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so."
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"Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones."
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"When our hatred is too alive puts us below what we hate."
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"Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them."
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"It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall us."
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"Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility."
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"All women seem by nature to be coquettes."
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"The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration."
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"No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them."
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"Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love."
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"We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less of ourselves."
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