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Usually we praise only to be praised.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
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
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
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
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
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

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