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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Capable Couple Do Look Perfect Witness World
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
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
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
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
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
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
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret

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