Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
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The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.
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If I advance, follow me If I retreat, kill me If I die, avenge me
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Our pride rather than our virtue criticizes the faults of others We reprove our friends less to correct their faults than to show that weourselves are free of them.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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