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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
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
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
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
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
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
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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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told

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