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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Always Love never Reason Talk Themselves Wear
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
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
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
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
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

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