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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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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
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
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
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Creator Design Fewer Great Passion Soul Virtue
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient

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