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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Action Blame Commendation Great Hear Part See Unlucky
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
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
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
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
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some

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