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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
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
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity

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