Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

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We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

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