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Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.

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Doe, Relish

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

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Humility, Pride, Defects

A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.

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Believe, Heart, Men

The more we love, the nearer we are to hate.

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Hate

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

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Real, Eye, Mean

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

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Love, Jealousy, Self

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

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Men, Thinking, Mistress

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

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Love, Friendship, Patience

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

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Pride, Conceited, Thinking

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

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Agreement, Opinion, Share

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

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Love, Disappointment, Hate

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

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Love, Believe, Romantic Love
Francois duc de La-Rochefoucauld (1828). “Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard”, p.187

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

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Money, Vanity, Giving

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

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Vanity, Virtue, Company

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

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Vanity, Funeral, Honor
"Pensées Tirées des Premières Éditions". "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1822.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

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Way, Deceived, Oneself
"The Atlanta Co-Ed Murder". Book by Glen C. Carrington (p. 165), August 2010.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

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Clever, Able, Cleverness

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

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Credit, Laziness, Virtue

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.

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Thinking, Sincerity, Distrust

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

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Inspirational, Quality, Self Discipline

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

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Cleverness, Know How, Knows

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

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Religious, Lying, Ambition

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

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Faults, Realizing, Cease

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

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Memories, People, Mind

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 how often we have told it to the same person?

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Memories, Not Good Enough, Triviality

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