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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Accept Birthplace Heart Mine One Remain Speech
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
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
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 seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
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
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
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
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
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

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