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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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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
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
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
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
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
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
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
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
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without

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