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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
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
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Defect Displease Fault Meet Other People Please Some
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
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
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Always Love never Reason Talk Themselves Wear
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem

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