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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine

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