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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

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 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
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
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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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
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
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who

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