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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon

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