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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
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
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
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
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
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
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
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
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
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way

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