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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
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
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
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
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
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
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy

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