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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
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
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
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Almost Always Cease Fault Love Realize
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon

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