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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
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
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
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
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
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
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue

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