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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Disguise Exist Hide Love Simulate
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
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient

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