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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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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Better Faithful Force Love Man Must Unfaithfulness
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
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 hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Creator Design Fewer Great Passion Soul Virtue
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
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
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
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

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