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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
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
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
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
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody

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