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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
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
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
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
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
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
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
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
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth

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