However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
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Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.
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There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
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The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.
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