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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
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
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
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
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick

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