We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.
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We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
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One who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere.
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No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
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