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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
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
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
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
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
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
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
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
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody

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