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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
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
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
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
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
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
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
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Almost Always Cease Fault Love Realize
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
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

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