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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
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
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
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
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
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret

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