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How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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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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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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