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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
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
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
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
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
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
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
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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