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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Able Consequence Energy Friendship Hatred Judge Love Rese
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
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
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Affection Effect Hatred Judge Love Most Resemble
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret

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