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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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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
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Affection Effect Hatred Judge Love Most Resemble
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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