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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
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
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
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
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Disguise Exist Hide Love Simulate
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
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
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal

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