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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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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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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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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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.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think

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