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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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All Come Despite Experience Find Fresh Ourselves Several Stage Together Year
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
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
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
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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