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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
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
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
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
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
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
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
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
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
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
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
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
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People
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

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