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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Absolute Cease Certain Change Doubt Either Jealousy Madness Passion Turn
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Advice Anyone Benevolent Give Sell Share
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
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
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
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
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
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
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity

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