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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
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
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 intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
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
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
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
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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All Come Despite Experience Find Fresh Ourselves Several Stage Together Year
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Counterfeit Deceive Judgement Reproduce Truth Well

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