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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
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
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Better Faithful Force Love Man Must Unfaithfulness
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
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Action Blame Commendation Great Hear Part See Unlucky
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Absolute Cease Certain Change Doubt Either Jealousy Madness Passion Turn
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
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
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various
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
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable

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