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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
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
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
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
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
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 we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick

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