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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Better Faithful Force Love Man Must Unfaithfulness
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
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
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
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
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think

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