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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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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
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
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
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
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain 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
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success

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