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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 always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
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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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
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
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
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
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
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue

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