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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without
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
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
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
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
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
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
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
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
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
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

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