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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
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
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
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
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use

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