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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Disguise Exist Hide Love Simulate
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love More
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
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
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Able Consequence Energy Friendship Hatred Judge Love Rese
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
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
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
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect

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