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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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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Better Faithful Force Love Man Must Unfaithfulness
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
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity

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