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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
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
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
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
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
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
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish

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