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It's often said that look at the message and not the messenger, but there are times when you can only decipher the message by looking at the messenger.

Message Often Looking Times
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Always Everything Excuse Had
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Ashamed Deeds Frequently Good
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We pardon to the extent that we love.

Extent Love Pardon That
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There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
Being Better Constantly Desiring
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Disguise Does Exists Hide
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

Believe Doubt Love Most
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Advice Bad Bad Example Example
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

Accustomed Become Disguise Disguised
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Favors Of Further Gratitude
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

Complains Everyone His Judgment
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Contains Jealousy Love More
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

About Everyone Few Ghosts
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Calculation More Often Than
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Advice Bad Bad Example Example
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

Due More Our Passions
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

Fault Last Long Only
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Being Clever Us Desire
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Always Fooled Heart Intellect
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

Bear Enough Misfortunes Others
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

Appear Before Disguised Finally
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

About Ill Ourselves Rather
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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.

Detail Happened How How Many Times
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Advice Anyone Badly Because
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To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

Ability Great Hide How
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Degree Forgives Loves One
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Agreeable Deceiving End Hope
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Actions Ashamed Best Could
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Bad Bad People Dangerous Devoid
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

Amended Cannot Character Defect
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.

Fool Forever Head Heart
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

Battle Join Man More
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

Also Enough Great Great Qualities
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Becomes Ceases Certainty Doubt
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Consequences Done Fear Much
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

About Always Because Each
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Ashamed Been Each Few
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

Admire Always Love Those
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Friendship However Less Love
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

Another Been Expect How
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Acquire Blessings Care Friend
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Advice Cannot Give Profit
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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Dared Greatly Nobly Thought
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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Another Gates Hateful Heart
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Light is the task where many share the toil.
Light Many Share Task
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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Admirable Enemies Eye Friends
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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Better Fathers Few Most
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The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Die Difficulty Dying Find
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There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Also Many Sleep Time
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But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

Aloof Best Curb Gentle
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