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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
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
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Almost Always Cease Fault Love Realize
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion

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