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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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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
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 pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue

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