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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Absolute Cease Certain Change Doubt Either Jealousy Madness Passion Turn
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 are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Defect Displease Fault Meet Other People Please Some
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
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
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us

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