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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
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
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
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
The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Accept Birthplace Heart Mine One Remain Speech
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
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
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make

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