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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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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
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
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
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue

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