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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
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
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
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 did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
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
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong

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