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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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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
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
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
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
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
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
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
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
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation

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