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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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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
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
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
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
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
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
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

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