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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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
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
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
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
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
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
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
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
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

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