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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
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 strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Counterfeit Deceive Judgement Reproduce Truth Well
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
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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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Advice Anyone Benevolent Give Sell Share
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Always Love never Reason Talk Themselves Wear
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
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
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice

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