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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
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
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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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Defect Displease Fault Meet Other People Please Some
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves

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