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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
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
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
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
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Capable Couple Do Look Perfect Witness World
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
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
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too

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