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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
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
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
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
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
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
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy

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