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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
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
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
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
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
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
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill

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