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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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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
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
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
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
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
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 do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
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
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
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
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
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
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
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
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
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
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

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