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- In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
- We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
- Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
- It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
- We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
- Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
- Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect…
- The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
- Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
- We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
- Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
- In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
- We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.
- We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
- How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
- We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
- We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
- We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
- We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
- When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
- When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
- If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
- Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
- Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
- We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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