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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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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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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
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
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
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
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

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