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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
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 pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
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
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
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
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Accustomed Become Disguise Ourselves
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
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody

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