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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
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
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
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
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
The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Accept Birthplace Heart Mine One Remain Speech
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

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