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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Defect Displease Fault Meet Other People Please Some
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
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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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
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
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
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
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Creator Design Fewer Great Passion Soul Virtue
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
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
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
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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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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