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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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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
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
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
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
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 are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
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 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
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
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
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue

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