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A bore, somebody has said, is a fool who insists on telling you about himself when you want to tell him about yourself.
it is not always because of valour or chastity that men are valiant or women chaste.
We all have strength enough to endure the troubles of others.
Greater virtues are needed to bear good fortune than bad.
If we had no faults we should not find so much enjoyment in seeing faults in others.
Pride always finds compensations, and even when it gives up vanity it loses nothing.
I don't understand what this means.
You can find women who have never had a love affair, but seldom women who have had only one.
What about men?
Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
The more one loves a mistress the nearer one is to hating her.
It is as easy to deceive ourselves without noticing it as it is hard to deceive others without their noticing.
that
Read 'than'
fell
Read 'fall'
When we resist our passions it is more on account of their weakness than our strength.
The surest way to be taken in is to think oneself craftier than other people.
At times we are as different from ourselves as we are from others.
pretending to weep over the loss of someone dear to us we really weep for ourselves, since we miss that person’s good opinion of us or deplore some curtailment of our wealth, pleasure, or position.
Those who obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.
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Read 'our'
How comes it that our memories are good enough to retain even the minutest details of what has befallen us, but not to recollect how many times we have recounted them to the same person?
Almost all our failings are more pardonable than the means we employ to hide them.
The reason why friendship means little to most women is that it is insipid once they have tasted love.
Does friendship mean little to most women?
When we love overmuch it is hard to realize that we are no longer loved in return.
A man who dislikes everybody is much more unhappy than a man nobody likes.
