"Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit."
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"Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune."
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"It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it."
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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
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"Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world."
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"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
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"The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more."
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"Conceit causes more conversation than wit."
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"We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own."
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"Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves."
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"What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves."
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"Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?"
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"A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny."
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"Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."
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"We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us."
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"Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it."
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"How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?"
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"Taste may change, but inclination never."
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"The world is full of pots jeering at kettles."
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"I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment."
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