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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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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
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
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Better Faithful Force Love Man Must Unfaithfulness
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
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain

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