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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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay 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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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
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
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
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

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