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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
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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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
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
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
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
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
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
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
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

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