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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
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
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
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
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves

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