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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
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
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
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity

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