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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

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The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

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The mind cannot long play the heart's role.

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Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

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He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

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There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

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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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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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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

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Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

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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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Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

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People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

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We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

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Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

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It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.

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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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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

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