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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
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
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
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
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
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
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
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
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
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Almost Always Cease Fault Love Realize
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Able Consequence Energy Friendship Hatred Judge Love Rese

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