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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
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
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
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
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love More
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
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Creator Design Fewer Great Passion Soul Virtue
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing

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