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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love More
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
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
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
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
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
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
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
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

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