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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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All Come Despite Experience Find Fresh Ourselves Several Stage Together Year
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Always Love never Reason Talk Themselves Wear
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Disguise Exist Hide Love Simulate
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
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

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