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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
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
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
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
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
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Affection Effect Hatred Judge Love Most Resemble
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
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
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule

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