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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

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No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

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A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

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The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

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Usually we praise only to be praised.

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

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We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

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The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

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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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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

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People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

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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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Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

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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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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

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What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

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