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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
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
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
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Absolute Cease Certain Change Doubt Either Jealousy Madness Passion Turn
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
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
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told

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