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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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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Community Crime Great Incapable Other Ready Suspect
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
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
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
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
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
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
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
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
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing

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