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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
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 it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
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
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
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
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice

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