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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
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
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
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
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
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
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
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
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem

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