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No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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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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Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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