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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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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Accustomed Become Disguise Ourselves
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
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
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
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
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
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
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
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
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
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
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness

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