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Usually we praise only to be praised.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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 give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
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
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Disguise Exist Hide Love Simulate
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
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
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
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
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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