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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
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 do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
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
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
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
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
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 often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
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
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part

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