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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
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
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
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
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

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