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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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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
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
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
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
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
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
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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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 give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge

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