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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Accustomed Become Disguise Ourselves
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
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
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
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
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
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

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