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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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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
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Counterfeit Deceive Judgement Reproduce Truth Well
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
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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All Come Despite Experience Find Fresh Ourselves Several Stage Together Year
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse

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