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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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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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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
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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