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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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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
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
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
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
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
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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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
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue

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