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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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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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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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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Accustomed Become Disguise Ourselves
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
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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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 man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Better Faithful Force Love Man Must Unfaithfulness
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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