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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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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 are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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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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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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Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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