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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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All Come Despite Experience Find Fresh Ourselves Several Stage Together Year
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People
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
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women
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.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Accustomed Become Disguise Ourselves
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

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