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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
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
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
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
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
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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