It is to be a truly virtuous man to wish to be always exposed to the view of virtuous people.
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If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which is not wholly displeasing to us.
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A man's worth has its season, like fruit.
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