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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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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Affection Effect Hatred Judge Love Most Resemble
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Able Consequence Energy Friendship Hatred Judge Love Rese
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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All Come Despite Experience Find Fresh Ourselves Several Stage Together Year
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice

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