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- The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth
- All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
- To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
- Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.
- Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and…
- Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.
- We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who…
- Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all…
- Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.
- Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
- A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
- Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
- Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
- Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
- It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it…
- To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.
- True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
- If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.
- The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism
- It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.
- Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.
- Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.
- Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.
- There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.
- All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
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