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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
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
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 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
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
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
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
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
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
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success

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