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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various
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
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
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

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