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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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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
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
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
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
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
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
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

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