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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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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
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
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
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
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
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
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Absolute Cease Certain Change Doubt Either Jealousy Madness Passion Turn
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish

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