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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
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
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
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
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
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth

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