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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
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
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
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
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make

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