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One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
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
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various

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