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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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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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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
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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