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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
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
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
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
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
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
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
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
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
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us

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