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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
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
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
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
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
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
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
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
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
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
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser

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