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Taste may change, but inclination never.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation

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