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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
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
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
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
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
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
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice

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