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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
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
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
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
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
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
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who

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