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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
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
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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