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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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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
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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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
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
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
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
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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All Come Despite Experience Find Fresh Ourselves Several Stage Together Year
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
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

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