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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Able Consequence Energy Friendship Hatred Judge Love Rese
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
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
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
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
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
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
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem

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