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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Accept Birthplace Heart Mine One Remain Speech
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
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 are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
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
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One

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