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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
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 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
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
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

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