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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
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
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various
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
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve

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