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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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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
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
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
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
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
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
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
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
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
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
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
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

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