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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
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
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom

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