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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
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
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
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

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