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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Better Faithful Force Love Man Must Unfaithfulness
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
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
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
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
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
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

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