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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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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
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 the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
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
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
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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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
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
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
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
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
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom

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