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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
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
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
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
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
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
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
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
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth

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