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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
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
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
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
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict
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

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