"To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself"
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"Gratitude is a lively sense of benefits to come."
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"Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another."
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"The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second."
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"We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back."
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"Generosity is the vanity of giving."
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"It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another."
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"However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her."
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"It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves."
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"There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame."
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"Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity."
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"The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness."
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"History never embraces more than a small part of reality"
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"There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from."
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"To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already."
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"You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else."
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"There are few good women who do not tire of their role."
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"One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun."
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"Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men."
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"The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love."
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