We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

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People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

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Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

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