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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
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
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Defect Displease Fault Meet Other People Please Some
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Better Faithful Force Love Man Must Unfaithfulness
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
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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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self

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