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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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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
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
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
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
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
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
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
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
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
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
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
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
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
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often

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