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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
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
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice

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