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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
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
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love More
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
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
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
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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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
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
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Action Blame Commendation Great Hear Part See Unlucky
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
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
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

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