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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion

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