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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much 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
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
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
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick

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