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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
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
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
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Disguise Exist Hide Love Simulate
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
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 only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade

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