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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Capable Couple Do Look Perfect Witness World
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
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
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
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
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
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
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Action Blame Commendation Great Hear Part See Unlucky
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

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