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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
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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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Absolute Cease Certain Change Doubt Either Jealousy Madness Passion Turn
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
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
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade

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