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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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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
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
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
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
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
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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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
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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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Disguise Exist Hide Love Simulate
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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