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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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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
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
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
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
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
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
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
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
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
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice

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