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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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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
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
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love More
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
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
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role

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