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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
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
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
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
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Capable Couple Do Look Perfect Witness World
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make

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