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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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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Better Faithful Force Love Man Must Unfaithfulness
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
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
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
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 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.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think

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