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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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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
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
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Affection Effect Hatred Judge Love Most Resemble
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
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
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
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True

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