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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

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Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

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If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.

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To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

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Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.

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