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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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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
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
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
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Creator Design Fewer Great Passion Soul Virtue
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous

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