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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
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
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
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
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
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
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

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