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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
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
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Defect Displease Fault Meet Other People Please Some
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
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
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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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
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Advice Anyone Benevolent Give Sell Share
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
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
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
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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