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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
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
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
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
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
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
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
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often

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