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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Accept Birthplace Heart Mine One Remain Speech
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
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
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
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
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret

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