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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Advice Anyone Benevolent Give Sell Share
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
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
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
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
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
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
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
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum

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