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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
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

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