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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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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
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
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
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
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Accustomed Become Disguise Ourselves
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 not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
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
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
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
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
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Able Consequence Energy Friendship Hatred Judge Love Rese

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