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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

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
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum

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