In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another.
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We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.
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We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Were we to take as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to disguise what we are, we might appear like ourselves without being at the trouble of any disguise at all.
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