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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
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
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 word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
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
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
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
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
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
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Almost Always Cease Fault Love Realize
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

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