As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
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False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.Jean de la Bruyere
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
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Children have neither past nor future and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present.
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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
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He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.
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A modest man never talks of himself.
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