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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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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
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
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
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
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 seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Disguise Exist Hide Love Simulate
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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