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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
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
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
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
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Community Crime Great Incapable Other Ready Suspect
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
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
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Almost Always Cease Fault Love Realize
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Creator Design Fewer Great Passion Soul Virtue
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish

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