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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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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
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
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Absolute Cease Certain Change Doubt Either Jealousy Madness Passion Turn
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
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
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Capable Couple Do Look Perfect Witness World
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade

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