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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
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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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
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
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
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Counterfeit Deceive Judgement Reproduce Truth Well
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Almost Always Cease Fault Love Realize
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Accustomed Become Disguise Ourselves
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule

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