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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... →
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... →
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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