Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, As poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects, arranges, and uses them Beneficially against the ills of life.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One is never so happy or so unhappy as one thinks.
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The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Perseverance merits neither blame nor praise it is only the duration of our inclinations and sentiments, which we can neither create nor extinguish.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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