Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDJealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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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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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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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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