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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love More
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power

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