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The generality of friends put...

The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.

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Penetration has an air of div...

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

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Solemnity is a device of the ...

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

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We love everything on our own...

We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.

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We feel good and ill only in ...

We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

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Self-love makes our friends a...

Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.

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There are several remedies wh...

There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

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The extreme pleasure we take ...

The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.

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When we enlarge upon the affe...

When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.

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Nothing is so capable of dimi...

Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.

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As long as we love, we can fo...

As long as we love, we can forgive.

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It is necessary, in order to ...

It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.

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Women can more easily conquer...

Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

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However much we may distrust ...

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.

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There is merit without rank, ...

There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.

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The duration of our passions ...

The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.

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Those whom the world has deli...

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

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Constancy in love is of two s...

Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour affections continually; the other is only from a point of honor, and a taking of pride not to change.

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The whimsicalness of our own ...

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

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The passions do very often gi...

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

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