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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
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
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
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
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
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
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
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
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
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody

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