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Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.
Women know not the whole of their coquetry.
Affected simplicity is an elegant imposture.
We always get bored with those whom we bore.
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
The more we love, the nearer we are to hate.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
Old fools are greater fools than young ones.
Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.
The passions often engender their contraries.
Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.
The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.
In love, the quickest is always the best cure.
Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.
We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.
We are never so generous as when giving advice.
The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.
A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
He is safe who admits no one to his confidence.
One may outwit another, but not all the others.
Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.
Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.
In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.
Only the great can afford to have great defects.
Gratitude is a lively sense of benefits to come.
Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment.
Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.
Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.
To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.
We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.
Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
Organize one's values in the order of their worth
Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.
It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action.
Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.
We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.