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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
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 often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
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
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
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
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
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
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
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 one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
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
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word

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