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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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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
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People
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
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Able Consequence Energy Friendship Hatred Judge Love Rese
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 passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise

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