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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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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love More
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Disguise Exist Hide Love Simulate
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Accept Birthplace Heart Mine One Remain Speech
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 seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
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
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 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
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Affection Effect Hatred Judge Love Most Resemble

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