We praise in others what we find in ourselves true friendship grows when self-esteem is flattered by mutual agreement in tastes and pleasures.
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We often boast that we are never bored, but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.
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In the misfortune of our best friends, we find something which is not displeasing to us.
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Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
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The highest skill is the true judgment of values.
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Jealousy is, in some sort, rational and just it aims at the preservation of a good which belongs, or which we think belongs, to us whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot endure, even in idea, the good of others.
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