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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
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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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
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
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
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
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
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
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
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
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
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women

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