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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Affection Effect Hatred Judge Love Most Resemble
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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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
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
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
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
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
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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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
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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