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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 word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
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
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Accustomed Become Disguise Ourselves
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
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
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Better Faithful Force Love Man Must Unfaithfulness

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