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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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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
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
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
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
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
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
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
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love

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