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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
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
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
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
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce

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