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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Advice Anyone Benevolent Give Sell Share
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
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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