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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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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
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
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
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
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
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
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side

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