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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
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
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
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
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love More
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
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
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves

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