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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
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
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
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
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
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
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
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
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
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
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Capable Couple Do Look Perfect Witness World
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation

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