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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
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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 should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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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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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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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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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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