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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice

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