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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
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
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Accustomed Become Disguise Ourselves
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
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
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us

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