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Taste may change, but inclination never.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
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
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love More
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
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
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
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
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
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
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade

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