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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
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
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
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
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
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
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love More
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
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

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