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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
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 often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
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
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
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
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Disguise Exist Hide Love Simulate
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade

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