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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
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
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
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
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
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

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