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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
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
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
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
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
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
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
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
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One

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