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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 accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
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
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict
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
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
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

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