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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Able Consequence Energy Friendship Hatred Judge Love Rese
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
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
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
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
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
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict

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