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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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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
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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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
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
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
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
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
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
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade

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