Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

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The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

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It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

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There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

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We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

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We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

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