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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 more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
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
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
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
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 come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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All Come Despite Experience Find Fresh Ourselves Several Stage Together Year

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