In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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We all have enough strength to bear the misfortunes of others.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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He who thinks he can find in himself the means of doing without others is much mistaken but he who thinks that others cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
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