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If our friends do us favors, we think they owe them to us as friends, but we don't think they owe us their friendship.

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The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving.

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While it is true that joys are short, neither are our sorrows very long.

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Great thoughts are born from the heart.

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Clarity is the varnish of masters.

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It is not true that one has made a fortune when they do not know how to enjoy it.

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Passion stronger than friendship is hatred.

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Solitude is to the spirit what diet is to the body.

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The infallible sign of a bad reign is the excess of praises directed at the monarch.

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He who knows how to endure everything can dare anything.

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To achieve great things, we must live as if we were never going to die.