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Usually we praise only to be praised.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
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
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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All Come Despite Experience Find Fresh Ourselves Several Stage Together Year
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
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
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine

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