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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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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
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 seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
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
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
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
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
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
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side

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