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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
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
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Almost Always Cease Fault Love Realize
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
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Capable Couple Do Look Perfect Witness World
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
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

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