"When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes."
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"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."
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"If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss."
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"Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt."
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"People always complain about their memories, never about their minds."
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"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."
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"In love we often doubt what we most believe."
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"Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall."
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"Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart."
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"When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it."
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"What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken."
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"It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste."
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"We pardon as long as we love."
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"It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular"
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"We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge."
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"The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives."
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"In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another."
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"Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes."
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"Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them."
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"In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust."
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