It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
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The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.
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How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
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Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
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