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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.
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Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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