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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
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
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
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
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
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
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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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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