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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
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
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
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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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
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
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
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
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
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Advice Anyone Benevolent Give Sell Share
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
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
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
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
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
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
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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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One

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