We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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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We all have enough strength to bear the misfortunes of others.
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It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
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Hypocrisy is homage paid by vice to virtue.
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Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
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