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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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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
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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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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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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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 our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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