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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Action Blame Commendation Great Hear Part See Unlucky
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody

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