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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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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love More
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Action Blame Commendation Great Hear Part See Unlucky
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without
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
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
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
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
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

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