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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
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
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
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
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
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
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
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody

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