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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
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
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
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
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Advice Anyone Benevolent Give Sell Share
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
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
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
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
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

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