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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Almost Always Cease Fault Love Realize
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
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
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
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
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
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.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Accustomed Become Disguise Ourselves
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
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

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