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136 quotes (Page 5 of 6 pages)True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
Eloquence
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True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
Love
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
Compliments
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
Strength
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We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
Admiration
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
Happiness
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We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.
Weakness
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
Love
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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.
Happiness
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We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.
Quality
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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.
Courage
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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.
Opinions
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
Vice
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We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
Faults
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Advice
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
Behavior
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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
Love
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We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
Advice
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We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
Desire
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We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.
Evil
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
Conversation
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
Confession
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
Forgiveness
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Motivation
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
Agreement
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