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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
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
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
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
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Accept Birthplace Heart Mine One Remain Speech
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 are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Able Consequence Energy Friendship Hatred Judge Love Rese
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
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
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Creator Design Fewer Great Passion Soul Virtue

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