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- The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth
- Our minds are lazier than our bodies.
- Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.
- The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.
- We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
- Women know not the whole of their coquetry.
- We pardon as long as we love.
- All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
- Hope and fear are inseparable.
- To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
- When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
- We give nothing so freely as advice.
- We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.
- The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.
- Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.
- People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.
- The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.
- It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.
- There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.
- Fortune and humor govern the world.
- Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.
- Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.
- Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.
- Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of…
- The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.
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