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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 promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Affection Effect Hatred Judge Love Most Resemble
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
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
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
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
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often

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