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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Almost Always Cease Fault Love Realize
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
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
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
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
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No

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