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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
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
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 intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
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
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
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
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
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet

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