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In love we often doubt what we most believe.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
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
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
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
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
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
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
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
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

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