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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
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
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
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
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
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly
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
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
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
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise

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