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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
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
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
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

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