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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
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
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
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
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom

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