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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
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
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Accustomed Become Disguise Ourselves
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
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
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Capable Couple Do Look Perfect Witness World
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
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
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
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

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