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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
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
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
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
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
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

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