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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
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
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
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
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
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth

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