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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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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
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
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 easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
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
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
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
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
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
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Almost Always Cease Fault Love Realize
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
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 principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word

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