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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
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
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
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
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
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
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
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
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People

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