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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
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
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Accustomed Become Disguise Ourselves
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
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
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
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
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
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
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
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation

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