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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Counterfeit Deceive Judgement Reproduce Truth Well
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
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
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
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
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
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
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
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
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
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No

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