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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
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
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
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
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
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
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young

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