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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
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
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
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
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
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
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
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
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Action Blame Commendation Great Hear Part See Unlucky
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Better Faithful Force Love Man Must Unfaithfulness
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
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
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion

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