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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Action Blame Commendation Great Hear Part See Unlucky
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
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
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
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
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
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
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
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 are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
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
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
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
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
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
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Community Crime Great Incapable Other Ready Suspect
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
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

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