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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
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
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
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Better Faithful Force Love Man Must Unfaithfulness
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
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
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 do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
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
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
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
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
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Counterfeit Deceive Judgement Reproduce Truth Well
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
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
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
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
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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