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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
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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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
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
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
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
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
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
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

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