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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
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
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
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
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Creator Design Fewer Great Passion Soul Virtue
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
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
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
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun

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