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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
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
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
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
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
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
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without
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
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
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
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
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
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
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various

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