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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
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
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
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
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
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
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly
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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Advice Anyone Benevolent Give Sell Share
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
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Always Love never Reason Talk Themselves Wear
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love More
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
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
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
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
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
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
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity

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