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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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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
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We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
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We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
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The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.
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