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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
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
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
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
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish

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