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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
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
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Community Crime Great Incapable Other Ready Suspect
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
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 all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
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
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
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
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side

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