We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate...

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate...

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they...

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they...

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of...

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of...

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than...

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than...

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these...

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these...

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either...

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either...

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to...

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to...

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all...

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all...

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

In love we often doubt what we most believe.