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Usually we praise only to be praised.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
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 are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Capable Couple Do Look Perfect Witness World
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
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
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
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
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve

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