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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
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
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
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
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
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
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
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
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum

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