We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.
From Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
The mind cannot long play the heart's role.
Only the contemptible fear contempt.
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
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