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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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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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
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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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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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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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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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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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us

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