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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
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
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
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
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Counterfeit Deceive Judgement Reproduce Truth Well
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem

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