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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
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
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Defect Displease Fault Meet Other People Please Some
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Always Love never Reason Talk Themselves Wear
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
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

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