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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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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women
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 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
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
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
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise

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