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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
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
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
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
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
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
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
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
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
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Advice Anyone Benevolent Give Sell Share

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