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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict
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
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish

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