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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Always Love never Reason Talk Themselves Wear
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
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
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
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
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise

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