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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly
The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Accept Birthplace Heart Mine One Remain Speech
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
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

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