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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 say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
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
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
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
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
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
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
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Disguise Exist Hide Love Simulate
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
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
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve

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