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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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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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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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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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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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
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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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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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
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
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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