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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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
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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