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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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without
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
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
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
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
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
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
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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