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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
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
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Able Consequence Energy Friendship Hatred Judge Love Rese
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
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
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
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
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
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem

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