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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
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
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety 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
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Affection Effect Hatred Judge Love Most Resemble
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
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

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