We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another.
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Love of justice in the generality of men is only the fear of suffering from injustice.
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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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We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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