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The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.



The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.



Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.



When we exaggerate our friends tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.



Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.



It is great cleverness to know when to conceal ones cleverness.



Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.



Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.



We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.



The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.



We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.



It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.



We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.



Conceit causes more conversation than wit.



Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.







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