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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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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various
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 often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
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
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time

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