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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
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
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use

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