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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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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
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
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
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
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
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
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
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
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
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
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
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
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
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
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Almost Always Cease Fault Love Realize
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum

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