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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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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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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
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Disguise Exist Hide Love Simulate
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
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
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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