Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
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Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture it gives it strength and makes it stand out.Jean de la Bruyere
Eloquence is to the sublime what the part is to the whole.
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The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.
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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
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