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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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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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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
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
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Defect Displease Fault Meet Other People Please Some
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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