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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
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
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
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
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
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
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
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
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So

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