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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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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Creator Design Fewer Great Passion Soul Virtue
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Always Love never Reason Talk Themselves Wear
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
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
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
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
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
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
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
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
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World

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