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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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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
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
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
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
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
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
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
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room

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