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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
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
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
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
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
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

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