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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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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
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
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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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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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
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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