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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Disguise Exist Hide Love Simulate
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Action Blame Commendation Great Hear Part See Unlucky
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
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
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun

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