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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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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
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise

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