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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
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
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
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
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
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
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself

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