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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Defect Displease Fault Meet Other People Please Some
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Capable Couple Do Look Perfect Witness World
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
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
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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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Creator Design Fewer Great Passion Soul Virtue
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum

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