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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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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Action Blame Commendation Great Hear Part See Unlucky
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
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
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
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing

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