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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
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
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
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
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
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

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