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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various
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
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Capable Couple Do Look Perfect Witness World
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
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
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
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret

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