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

Maxim 76.

The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.

Maxim 78.

Silence is the best resolve for him who distrusts himself.

Maxim 79.

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.

Maxim 83.

A man who is ungrateful is often less to blame than his benefactor.