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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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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
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
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
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 passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
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
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
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
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
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal

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