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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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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
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
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
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
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
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
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
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Always Love never Reason Talk Themselves Wear
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
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 intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
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
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love

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