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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
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
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Always Love never Reason Talk Themselves Wear
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
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
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish

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