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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine
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
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
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
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
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often

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