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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
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
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
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
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
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
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
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
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
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade

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