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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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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
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
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
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
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
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
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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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Able Consequence Energy Friendship Hatred Judge Love Rese
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

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