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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Action Blame Commendation Great Hear Part See Unlucky
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love 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 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 confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
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
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often

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