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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love More
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
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
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never

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