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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
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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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Capable Couple Do Look Perfect Witness World
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
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
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
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
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often

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