Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

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To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

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To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

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A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

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The most dangerous folly of old people who were once attractive is to forget that they are not so any longer.

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Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.

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Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.

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Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

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The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

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