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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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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Creator Design Fewer Great Passion Soul Virtue
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
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
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
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
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
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

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