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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Advice Anyone Benevolent Give Sell Share
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
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
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Accept Birthplace Heart Mine One Remain Speech
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

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