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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
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
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
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
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth

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