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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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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Affection Effect Hatred Judge Love Most Resemble
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
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Counterfeit Deceive Judgement Reproduce Truth Well
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
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
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
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Disguise Exist Hide Love Simulate
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish

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