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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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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
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
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
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
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
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
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told

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