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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
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
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
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
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
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 are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
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
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
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Absolute Cease Certain Change Doubt Either Jealousy Madness Passion Turn

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