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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
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
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
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
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
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

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