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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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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Action Blame Commendation Great Hear Part See Unlucky
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Better Faithful Force Love Man Must Unfaithfulness
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
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
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
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
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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All Come Despite Experience Find Fresh Ourselves Several Stage Together Year
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
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
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Almost Always Cease Fault Love Realize
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon

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